God’s Word Translation
Exodus 10:18
18Moses left Pharaoh and prayed to the Lord.
Exodus 10:18 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And he went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the Lord.
- New International Version (NIV)Moses then left Pharaoh and prayed to the Lord.
- English Standard Version (ESV)So he went out from Pharaoh and pleaded with the Lord.
- New King James Version (NKJV)So he went out from Pharaoh and entreated the Lord.
Context of Exodus 10:18
16Then Pharaoh quickly called for Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against the Lord your God and against you. 17Please forgive my sin one more time. Pray to the Lord your God to take this deadly plague away from me.” Moses left Pharaoh and prayed to the Lord. 19Then the Lord changed the wind to a very strong west wind. It picked up the locusts and blew them into the Red Sea. Not one locust was left anywhere in Egypt. 20But the Lord made Pharaoh stubborn, so he did not let the Israelites go.
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וַיֵּצֵ֖א מֵעִ֣ם פַּרְעֹ֑ה וַיֶּעְתַּ֖ר אֶל־יְהוָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Exodus 10:18
- Exodus 8:30Moses left Pharaoh and prayed to the Lord.
- Exodus 8:9Moses answered Pharaoh, “You may have the honor of choosing when I should pray for you, your officials, and your people. Then the frogs will leave you and your homes. The only ones left will be those in the Nile.”
- Matthew 5:44But I tell you this: Love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you.
- Luke 6:28Bless those who curse you. Pray for those who insult you.
Commentaries on Exodus 10:18
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 12-20Verses 12-20 God bids Moses stretch out his hand; locusts came at the call. An army might more easily have been resisted than this host of insects. Who then is able to stand before the great God? They covered the face of the earth, and ate up the fruit of it. Herbs grow for the service of man; yet when God pleases, insects shall plunder him, and eat the bread out of his mouth. Let our labour be, not for the habitation and meat thus exposed, but for those…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-20The eighth plague was the plague of locusts (10:4). Enough time had passed since the previous plague for the wheat and spelt to sprout (see 9:32). The Egyptian god Osiris was highly honored by the people in Egypt. Egyptians believed he went down into the underworld and brought plant life back in the spring. For them, he was connected with renewal and life after death. This second and climactic attack on plant life showed that even Osiris had no power…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 13-1913-19. the Lord brought an east wind--The rod of Moses was again raised, and the locusts came. They are natives of the desert and are only brought by an east wind into Egypt, where they sometimes come in sun-obscuring clouds, destroying in a few days every green blade in the track they traverse. Man, with all his contrivances, can do nothing to protect himself from the overwhelming invasion. Egypt has often suffered from locusts. But the plague that…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Exodus 10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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